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7 Ways To Improve Return On Your Marketing Investment

Startup Professionals Musings

Indeed, while the rules and technologies for lead generation have changed, Forrester and other experts still see it as the most effective way for businesses with limited budgets to maximize their return on marketing investment (ROI). You can start an SEM campaign with as little as $50 today and get results very quickly. Cold calling.

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7 Startup Marketing Strategies To Bring In Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

Indeed, while the rules and technologies for lead generation have changed, Forrester and other experts still see it as the most effective way for businesses with limited budgets to maximize their return on marketing investment (ROMI). You can start an SEM campaign with as little as $50 today and get results very quickly. Cold calling.

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Viral Marketing And Word-of-Mouth Require Investment

Startup Professionals Musings

Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids' soccer game. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks! Yes, long before Yelp or any similar service. Google was clear that they WOULD NOT go into this business. So he founded … wait … CitySearch.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

Both Sides of the Table

It’s building a product that is substantially differentiated, and, as Bill Gross, one of the most prolific tech entrepreneurs of our era says, “ It needs to be 10x better than the competition ” (because if you shoot for that then in competitive markets you might achieve 3x. Rebelling is simply a form of snobbery.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. Let me not bury the lede. The company was called Red Beacon.

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Interview with Dmitri Leonov and Constantine Suychmez, Ulevate

socalTECH

Our cost is very low, which allows us a key, competitive advantage. Eighteen to twenty percent of the revenue is services. If providers are going with you because of the marketing and other services, why even have hardware involved at all? The retention rates were low, which mean they could not invest in marketing like we can.

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